Author: John Peacock
Date: 2014-11-07 21:53
What mouthpiece are you using? Different variants can affect the throat tones and near relations to a noticeable extent relative to other notes. I normally use a Selmer C85 and E/F/F# are a hair on the low side, but acceptable with care - whereas the upper throat notes A/A# tend to be sharp, requiring a little filling of the holes. For a while, I played a Portnoy, where I found that E/F/F# were lower. If you use a Vandoren 13 series, my experience of these (based mainly on trying to tune with people who use them) is that they can make the throat/near-throat region a lot lower: A/A# probably OK given that these tend to be high, but E/F/F# (and G also for these mouthpieces) end up distinctly flat. I could never use one of the 13 series - of course, many people do, sometimes with good results, so that says that these tuning issues may vary with individuals. But in any case, a different mouthpiece will have an effect: you may then end up with just a sharp A/A#, which is easily cured in a reversible way.
All this applies to Buffet R13s. It's been remarked above that other makes don't have E/F/F# so low, and this has been my experience also.
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